On 9 August 1945 the USA dropped a second atomic bomb on Japan on the city of Nagasaki. Seventy four thousand immediately perished and then, as at Hiroshima, many more died as the effects of radiation destroyed their bodies.
‘Survivors are frustrated by a growing nuclear threat and support among international leaders for developing or possessing nuclear weapons for deterrence. They criticize the Japanese government’s refusal to sign or even participate in the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons because Japan, as an American ally, needs U.S. nuclear possession as deterrence. ‘
https://www.nbcnews.com/world/asia/nagasaki-marks-80th-bomb-anniversary-rcna224013
The mayor of Nagasaki said, "Conflicts around the world are intensifying in a vicious cycle of confrontation and fragmentation, If we continue on this trajectory, we will end up thrusting ourselves into a nuclear war."
Up to a point Lord Copper. If we continue to allow capitalism and its obsession with competitive advantage to continue then the odds on the advantages and profits that capitalism perceives as the benefits of wars will be fatal for the whole human race.
No War But Class War
Not just the human race.
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